Everything about every MKPC item!

green shells and red shells this are some of the best protection in the game can be thrown or held can come in groups of 3 when the red or green shell is thrown can be blocked by banana shells pow-block star and giant-mushroom effect of getting hit by shells you spin out and lose speed

Items I would like in MK9

Here is my item tier list! It is based on how strong I can be with an item.


S Tier:
The most powerful item in the game, it's usually the item that I want the most on Lap 2 or Lap 3 to make a huge come-back and completely turn the race around! It's also fun to shock dodge your mate or target shock someone.
Very useful item granting complete invincibility to any item all while giving a great speed increase! It's one of the best item to use for very long shortcuts.
x3 Similarly to the Star, the Triple Mushrooms are very useful for great shortcuts, but they can be used a different places because there are 3 Mushrooms!

A Tier:
The 2nd most powerful item in the game (in my opinion), the POW Block is really useful to "reset" everybody's items. Using a POW Block requires a lot of skill as you have to take into account the dodging possibilities (using jumps or cannons) so timing it right can be a problem.
It can also be great to force others to waste their power items. To me, it's one of the most strategical items in the game behind the Shock.
The reason the Golden Mushroom is placed lower than the Triple Mushrooms is because it has to be used in the right place for it to be useful. If not then it will just end up staying in your item slot for nothing, preventing the user to pull new items. However it's still a key item to come back when bagging as it allows taking great shortcuts.
Despite its very high speed, the Bullet Bill often stays at the center of the road. It can also skip many shortcuts if not used correctly. Using it in dangerous places can be very fun though.
The Blue Shell is without a doubt one of the funniest items in the entire game, it litteraly punishes the person in 1st place for being good at the game!
Most of the time players tend to throw their Blue Shell right away as if it was a waste. Learning how to use a Blue Shell like timing it so that 1st place has no way to dodge it with a cannon, a ground item or even by falling in a hole is actually very fun! Because it creates a sense of panic in most players, it can truly change the outcome of a race.
To me the Mega Mushroom is just a failed Star (litteraly). It makes the player invincible... but not to every item, it gives a speed boost... but weaker than the Star's and we can't crush players like in the official Mario Kart Games. However the gimmick of growing the player to shrink them back later on after the effect is over is fun for some reason!
Even if it is weaker than a Star, because it can be obtained somewhat commonly it becomes a decent item to bag and come back with!
I'm a very good Bob-Omb sniper and I love slowing down on players on purpose to make them go BOOM! It's just that I personally think making absolutely insane Bob-Omb snipes from afar is just hilarious xD
x3 Having Triple Red Shells almost guarantees a hit on the player ahead, it's fun to spam them to destroy an opponent's protections and the opponent itself because there is nothing they can do against 3 Red Shells. It's also great for defense and intimidating other racers!

B Tier:
x3 Just like the Red Shell it's a very great defensive and offensive item but most of the time you 2 Green Shells end up breaking eachothers and the 3rd one hits you X_X
What I really like doing however is throwing them in walls so that it can hit players further ahead xD
Simple item, allows one shortcut to be taken but nothing much. It's a REALLY good item to have in 1st place to dodge Blue Shells like a pro!
Funny item that can be thrown in walls, it's very very satisfying to snipe someone with a Green Shell.
The reason why I prefer single Green Shells over single Red Shells is because they often break on nothing by hitting a decor or a ground item. Also they're pretty predictable unlike Green Shells and can be really easily defended.
x3 Probably the best item to pull in 1st place. With Triple Bananas you're guaranteed to survive at least 3 Red Shells.
Now this is where people think I'm a weirdo. The FIB is probably my favorite item to get in 1st place for one reason: by throwing it and hitting my own FIB, I can dodge Blue Shell thanks to the i-frames (it's better to spin out twice than 4 times xD). This strategy with the FIB already saved me many races!

C Tier:
The Poison Mushroom is one of the most random yet original item we have, being taken from the original Super Mario Kart game. It's cool because it shrinks down players but that's pretty much it.
Bananas are weak items for offense and defense, nothing special about them.

D Tier:
The Blooper doesn't affect players in the game, but rather the person playing. If the player can easily see through the ink the Blooper becomes a useless item.
In my opinion it should drop the handling statistics a bit and also

to get in an online race

S Tier
#1 Lightning - Strongest item in the game to any player but especially someone skilled but in the back (usually me) so it is great not only to the user but anyone with a shock dodge so usually the others in the back can go ahead. Win-Win-SEVERE LOSS

#2 Bullet Bill - Best speed item in the game because of the speed and length with the length of the star and a speed of (estimated) 1.5x the speed of the star. Also it still has invincibility

Ill do the rest of this later

REMOVE TRIPLE SHROOMS AND GOLDEN??? ARE YOU INSANE???

Removing those and Blue Shells would cause bagging to almost completely disappear X_X Frontrunning would be so much easier now...

(This is from the perspective of a C tier lounger lol, also when I talk about distributions I'm referring to the item distribution used in CT Lounge, not the base game.)

S Tier
Free win unless it's at the end of lap 3 in which case you'd likely lose anyway, also a really fun dynamic in teams
How good this item is will depend on the track, but it's not uncommon to get a free top placement just by pressing a button, also shock dodge
Go fast, also really good if paired up with mushrooms, also shock dodge

A Tier
Same thing as a star, just slightly weaker
x3 Mushrooms are pretty essential for most shortcuts, and having three of them just makes it three times better. Also a very easy item to burn in case you want to chain (cough gold shroom cough)
Weaker shock, also alot harder to use right. Can still easily turn the tides on a race though. LE MINI SHOCK
Same thing as triple mushrooms. Also forgot to mention dodging blue shells which is another crucial aspect. While all the other items mentioned earlier (except shock and pow) can blue dodge, an opportunity for that to happen comes very rarely unlike the single shroom which you can pull in 2nd place

B Tier
x3 This item would probably be higher if it wasn't buggy as hell. Single red shells already have some issues, and the triple red shell brings even more issues where you throw a red, it goes backwards, it kills one of your reds, leaving you with a single rotating red shell (worse than just pulling one red shell), fortunately this doesn't happen that often
Speaking of single red shell, this item is generally useful. Sniping 1st place because they made the mistake of showing their fib is always funny. Problem is it can be useless, either going straight into a wall for no reason or hitting a decor with wall collisions (Quick Kernell Pro Track Creation Tip: always disable those, they never play well). Also can be used to scare the people behind you to not catch up.
The best item you can pull in first place, amazing to trail as you'll scare the nutsack of people behind you and especially great on cannons to pretty much guarantee killing someone. You can also snipe if you're good. Only problem is that it can backfire if you don't keep your momentum. Also fun fact I made the new bob omb sprite and Wargor did not put me in the website credits
x3 Contending with the bomb for best item in 1st as this provides really good defense as well as allowing you to block shortcuts
Funny wall snipe haha unga bunga. Also good defensively.
x3 You might be wondering why the triple version is lower, and that is because of the placement. While this item is decent in 2nd, anything behind that is just pretty much trash. Still decently defensive but it won't protect you from all the invincibility items later positions get. Also a good time to mention that if you throw 2 green shells forward in quick succession, they hit each other and if you use a green followed by a mushroom you hit yourself.
Not nearly as good as the triple version, but still able to block a red or make someone take a wider turn.
It does kinda bother me that this is the only item that isn't really an official MK item but whatever it fits the game regardless. Anyway it's just a stronger banana. Really funny to use on tracks with teleporters as you can basically guarantee a hit if another person takes the teleport.

C Tier
Ngl while making the tier list I forgot about C tier lol. Anyway this is the MKPC equivalent of the coin item, as in a mostly useless item so 1st place can't dodge every red shell thrown their way. Can be used to dodge blue shells apparently but it still slows you down and personally haven't had many opportunities to do this strat (wouldn't a banana also be better?)

D Tier
This is a hot take, but honestly this item just exists to punish last place. This item is a significantly worse bullet bill, which you get in the same placements as a bullet bill. All it does is prevent you from using any other item, making you stuck with this. It can be good on some tracks if they have a lot of off road, but there aren't that many. It also ruins your bagging. If there was a button to just end it instantly this item would be A tier, maybe even S but as it is now it is complete garbage.
Probably the most important item from a game design standpoint. Prevents first place from easily winning every race, and being 2nd/3rd and seeing a blue shell on the minimap is very hype. That being said, getting to pull the blue shell is absolutely miserable. I have had a lot of races ruined because I pull a blue instead of any speed item and just lose. First place is also your last interest if you're all the way in the back. Similar to the shock though, a really fun item to use in team mogis (especially in 3v3/4v4)
Yeah it's a joke item. Pretty much useless as it goes for last place which is generally not what you want to hit. High likelihood they dodge too since last has a lot of invincibility items. This item is fun for dicking around, but I wouldn't ever want this in an actual serious race.
You know this item is bad when it does worse than a literal shitpost. This item does basically nothing. The dark shell at least hits something, this doesn't. It puts some ink pngs on your screen but it's really easy to see through them. You can also look at the unobstructed minimap or get rid of the effect altogether with a boost. This item had to be removed from CT Lounge because pulling it would just end your race as you get nothing while your enemies enjoy destroying you with shells or zooming past you with shrooms. Really hope this item gets reworked someday so it's actually usable, there's a lot of creative options you could do with the blooper. You could block the minimaps + item wheel, you could make the ink reduce stats, you could make the ink slippery and probably a million other things I haven't thought of.

We all know why the Blooper sucks (Everyone's Favorite Item!)  .... The Fake Item Box is just eh, okay I guess, But here's mine!

Yeah that is what I want in MK9 bagging is dead and nobody can overtake you just because that have MUCH better items